HELP: HRE Tech Tree

[Shahed]

Hi All !

I'm thinking of something (when I'm supposed to be working) but I never got the tech tree with my game. I don't want to launch the game (mod the file for insta-gunpowder) and browse through the building browser (for the 1000th time).

Does anyone have it uploaded somewhere ? or is it D/L able somewhere ?

Does anyone know which HRE units are NOT available in campaign ?

Many thanks for your help !

SALUTE !

[TinCow]

If you're talking about units which appear in the multiplayer selection, but not in the campaign, you can find that info in the incredibly well-done "FUSIL":

https://forums.totalwar.org/vb/showthread.php?t=84650

[Shahed]

Doh! Thanks (or should I say MOOOO !) TinCow.

Do you have a link on how to insert these units into the SP campaign ?

[TinCow]

Nope, never tried to nor read about it. Your best bet is to post that in the Modding Questions forum (https://forums.totalwar.org/vb/forumdisplay.php?f=176).

[Shahed]

Thanks.

It's surely be answered before. I'll do a search, eventually.

[Flavius Merobaudes]

The only reason for units not to be available in the campain is that there's no building they're recruited at.
Simply go into export_descr_buildings and attach the unit you want to the building you feel is suited for them.

For example, I've given the HRE the military academy and made it recruit "Landsknechte", giving them exp +1 in the officers academy. Otherwise HRE wouldn't have any decent pikes, and who wants to rely on mercs.
I'm not sure but I think Dism. Gothic Knights aren't available either. But who needs them if Zweihaender can do the same job much cheaper.
As for religious fanatics, well they're disgusting fanatically religious and I don't use such guys in my honorable armies.:knight:

[Fußball]

For example, I've given the HRE the military academy and made it recruit "Landsknechte", giving them exp +1 in the officers academy. Otherwise HRE wouldn't have any decent pikes, and who wants to rely on mercs.

I have not played a campaign so long to be able to use landsknechte, do you know the map regions in game they are recruitable? As cool as it would be to have them recruited via a castle or city it is correct they are recruitable as mercenaries. Even though historically during the Renaissance they were a large part of Imperial armies of the time, they were still mercenaries. Not to mention used by other European countries as well at some point, France, Spain and Poland to name a few.


I'm not sure but I think Dism. Gothic Knights aren't available either. But who needs them if Zweihaender can do the same job much cheaper.
As for religious fanatics, well they're disgusting fanatically religious and I don't use such guys in my honorable armies.:knight:

Gothic Knights have much better armor, 14 in stats as compared to Zweihänder with 11. They also have magnificent armor, which just for the beauty of it makes them better imo. ~;) I do not understand why CA left them out though. Definitely mod worthy for v1.2.

I never use religious pilgrims or fanatics either. For mainly the same reasons as you stated. Though the current campaign I am playing I bought one unit of fanatics just for the fun of it.

Tschüß!
Erich

[Flavius Merobaudes]

The export_descr_unit says Landsknechte are to be hired in the late era by the HRE. Actually, I don't know how mercenaries work in M2TW and if they are resticted to certain regions or to regions currently belonging to a certain party. So I guess they can be hired by anyone in central europe. So in theory even the mongols could hire them if they made it into Germany.

type Landschneckt Pikemen
dictionary Landschneckt_Pikemen ; Landsknecht Pikemen
category infantry
class spearmen
voice_type Heavy
accent German
banner faction main_spear
banner holy crusade
soldier Landschneckt_Pikemen, 60, 0, 1
attributes sea_faring, hide_forest, hardy, can_withdraw, mercenary_unit, pike
formation 1.2, 1.2, 2.4, 2.4, 8, square, phalanx
stat_health 1, 0
stat_pri 12, 4, no, 0, 0, melee, melee_blade, piercing, spear, 25, 1
;stat_pri_ex 0, 0, 0
stat_pri_attr spear, long_pike, spear_bonus_8
stat_sec 10, 3, no, 0, 0, melee, melee_blade, piercing, sword, 25, 1
;stat_sec_ex 0, 0, 0
stat_sec_attr no
stat_pri_armour 0, 6, 0, flesh
;stat_armour_ex 0, 0, 0, 0, 4, 0, 0, flesh
stat_sec_armour 0, 0, flesh
stat_heat 2
stat_ground 1, -2, 3, 2
stat_mental 9, normal, highly_trained
stat_charge_dist 40
stat_fire_delay 0
stat_food 60, 300
stat_cost 1, 350, 155, 105, 80, 350, 4, 80
armour_ug_levels 0
armour_ug_models Landschneckt_Pikemen
ownership slave, hre
era 2 hre
;unit_info 11, 0, 4

I haven't played long enough either to know in which numbers they come as mercenaries, but considering they made up the bunch of armies in 30-years-war I doubt it'll be sufficient.

Furthermore, they were no exclusive pike formations but were mixed with arquebusiers at the corners and some swiftly deployable Zweihänder which made them extremly versatile and hard to crack. The only real danger were artillery shells, but considering the logistical problems of deploying artillery in these times, they were fielded very seldom only. And why don't they get any armour upgrades?

You're right, Gothic Knights are better than Zweihänder as a unit per se, but I found Zweihänder to do their work quite good, espacially with the armour upgrade. And considering the use/cost ratio, it seems to be wiser to use them in campaigns.

[Lusted]

If mercenary units have other factions apart from slave on their ownnership line, it means that the merc unit is available to that faction in custom battle.

[FactionHeir]

I wonder why they were spelled "Landschneckt" in the files actually, and also say this when clicked on instead of the proper "Landknecht"

Btw, you can't hire those from buildings in the campaign because they aren't listed in the descr_buildings file. Add em and you can.

[Flavius Merobaudes]

I see.

This is an excerpt from descr_mercenaries in the imperial_campaign folder:


pool Northern_Germany
regions Stettin_Province Hamburg_Province Frankfurt_Province Magdeburg_Province Breslau_Province
unit merc cog, exp 0 cost 200 replenish 0.36 - 1.0 max 1 initial 1 religions { catholic } crusading
unit merc cog, exp 0 cost 1000 replenish 0.02 - 0.10 max 1 initial 1
unit Mercenary Frankish Knights exp 0 cost 1080 replenish 0.01 - 0.06 max 1 initial 0 end_year 1300 religions { catholic orthodox }
unit Mercenary German Knights exp 0 cost 950 replenish 0.01 - 0.06 max 1 initial 0 start_year 1300 end_year 1500 religions { catholic orthodox }
unit Landschneckt Pikemen exp 0 cost 530 replenish 0.08 - 0.25 max 4 initial 0 start_year 1470 religions { catholic orthodox }
unit Mercenary Crossbowmen exp 0 cost 860 replenish 0.08 - 0.25 max 4 initial 2 end_year 1300
unit Mercenary Pavise Crossbowmen exp 0 cost 930 replenish 0.08 - 0.25 max 4 initial 0 start_year 1300 end_year 1400
unit Mercenary Arquebusiers exp 0 cost 830 replenish 0.08 - 0.25 max 4 initial 0 start_year 1400 events { gunpowder_discovered }
unit Mercenary Spearmen exp 0 cost 660 replenish 0.08 - 0.25 max 4 initial 1 end_year 1470
unit Pilgrims exp 0 cost 35 replenish 0.36 - 1.0 max 4 initial 1 religions { catholic } crusading
unit Crusader Knights exp 0 cost 220 replenish 0.15 - 0.35 max 4 initial 1 end_year 1300 religions { catholic } crusading
unit Crusader Sergeants exp 0 cost 110 replenish 0.15 - 0.35 max 4 initial 1 end_year 1300 religions { catholic } crusading

There seem to be some other regional mercenary pools including Landsknechte: Southern Germany, The Netherlands, Burgundy and Poland:book:

But they don't come in the numbers at least I would need them. They replenish in the same amount as crossbows, which is way to few.

[FactionHeir]

Nothing that you can't change ;)